Episode 22 Jane and Stephanie

Interview with Jane Hornibrook and Stephanie Pietkiewicz from The Council For The Humanities/Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand.

www.humanities.org.nz

www.creativecommons.org.nz

Firstly a disclaimer, this was the first recording I made on my trip, and it wasn't loud enough, so I had to do a lot of work to amplify it up w/ Audacity. You can hear the different amplification levels, because I had to select small bits of speech to amplify at a time, to avoid "clipping". This is the best I could do, hopefully it's listenable.

It's a transitional time, thats what people are saying these days. People around the world are changing the way they understand how creative work should be licensed. Creative people here in New Zealand should be giving a long hard think about how they would like creativity controled in the future. The Creative Commons as an organization in New Zealand, is itself in a transitional period. The Council For The Humanities, was originally granted the project jurisdiction by Creative Commons International, and has ported the licenses and maintained the project over the past few years. Now the Council is becoming part of the Royal Society of New Zealand:

http://www.royalsociety.org.nz/Site/news/media_releases/2009/humanities.aspx

Which pretty much means that the Royal Society will now be responsible for the advancement of the Creative Commons in New Zealand. For users and supporters of the Creative Commons like me, at first this might seem a bit confusing, how did this come about? There was not much dialogue about the arrangement, there is an attempt here:

http://www.humanitiesresearch.net/forums/general/humanities_within_the_royal_society

and here:

http://creativecommons.org.nz/forums/creative_commons_aotearoa_in_2010

After some reflection, about a half a minute for me, it seems like a really positive development. I've found that both Jane and Stephanie understand the principles behind the movement and are enthusiastic about advocating for the advancement of the Creative Commons. The adoption by the Royal Society only gives them more resources to do that.

Anyhow I've just included some snippets of the conversation I had w/ Jane and Steph, and I can't clearly recall which bits I put in there. I recently did 12 interviews w/ people I contacted through the creativecommons.org.nz website, well, 11 people, one person I contacted through pirateparty.org.nz. Anyhow i'll be posting all those interviews up soon on archive.org.

In this episode, I had fun infusing some of the Creative Commons content we talked about, Jane made me aware of the "People In Your Neighborhood" project:

http://www.britishcouncil.org/nz-events-piyn.htm

And I found you could download the songs here:

http://www.last.fm/music/Various%20Artists/People%20In%20Your%20Neighbourhood

Accept for one track? Whats the deal with that?

And you can find samples from the recordings here:

http://ccmixter.org/people/BritishCouncilNZ

I used this one in this recording:

http://ccmixter.org/files/BritishCouncilNZ/19116

The tracks I played in this episode are:

Daniel Larsen feat. Levani Vosasi - The Trouble With the Two True Gods

Red Dynasty feat. Renee Liang - Jade Chinglish

RayRay feat. Baz Suamili & Lo Key - Money in My Pocket

I was telling Jane, how I found a musician from Hamilton on Jamendo, so I played this track by The Bathtub Sophist:

http://www.jamendo.com/en/track/361829

I was also telling her how I love WFMU, and the stuff they put up on the Free Music Archive, like this track:

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/No_Regrets_For_Our_Youth/No_Regrets_For_Our_Youth/Dance_1163

Ok, I just included that one to weird people out. It kind of gives you a taste of what you can expect from WFMU.

Stephanie mentioned a quote by T.S. Eliot, which I thought was great, especially since the conception of New It Make itself was partially influenced by another quote from Ole Possum. The one that goes like, "Art never changes, but the material of art does."

I put in the poem, "Whispers of Immortality" from this short poetry collection:

http://librivox.org/short-poetry-collection-023/

Lastly, w/ this episode I've started using a little intro music from the "Creativity Builds On The Past" video the Creative Commons put out a few years ago. I think I'm going to start using it every episode for the lead in bit. I ripped the audio track out of the flv file from:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0xQplM4Tn0

I used the program which you can easily install on Ubuntu, called 'youtube-dl' to get the video, and then used ffmpeg to split out the audio file. Then I used Audacity to remix it a bit.